It is a hardy greenhouse plant, and may be kept well enough through the winter in a common hot-bed frame, or planted against a south wall, and matted as myrtles usually are in such situations; we have known the glauca, treated in prove a charming ornament.
It is a native of Spain, growing, as Clusius informs us, by road-sides, in sandy places, and on the declivities of hills.
Cultivated here in 1656, by J. Tradescant, jun. H. K.
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Selago Ovata. Oval-headed Selago.
Class and Order.
Didynamia Angiospermia.
Generic Character.
Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. tubus capillaris; limbus subæqualis, Sem. 1.